Clara's Heart

Name: Clara's Heart
Released: 1988-10-7
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan, Spalding Gray

Clara's Heart

PG-13
1h 48m
1988

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Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg stars as a Jamaican woman who teaches a boy from the Maryland suburbs about life while the boy's self-absorbed parents try to cope with their grief over the death of another child in this heartwarming and bittersweet coming-of-age tale. Based on the novel by Joseph Olshan.

Director:

Robert Mulligan

Producer:

Martin Elfland, Marianne Moloney

Writer:

Mark Medoff

Cast:

Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan, Spalding Gray, Beverly Todd, Hattie Winston

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Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

The darker and far-flung aspects of the story are icky and unnecessary. But the relationship between Clara and David is beautifully delineated.

Clara's Heart is just awful.

Goldberg is on top form, doing her Jamaican accent shtick.

The surprises may not come quite often enough for some, but at all times there is Goldberg's glowing performance to keep us fascinated, or a nice salty bit of humor, or a great little character riff by Harris that's completely endearing.

Buoyed by a beautifully measured star turn by Whoopi Goldberg and a smashing screen debut for young Neil Patrick Harris, Clara's Dream is a powerful, unabashedly sentimental drama.

July 16, 2020

FULL REVIEW

Additional Info

Genre:Drama
Release Date:October 7, 1988
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
Stereo
Screen Pass Eligible:Yes

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Clara's Heart

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